Buffett and Charlie Munger will answer shareholder questions until 3:30 p.m. at the 2001 meeting, except for a noon break.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
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What would count as true or false
True: at the 28 April 2001 meeting, Buffett and Munger took shareholder questions until about 3:30 p.m., apart from the lunch break. Mostly true: the session ended within roughly 30 minutes of 3:30, or the break was timed differently. Mostly false: the Q&A was much shorter, ending well before 3:30, or only one of the two took part. False: there was no Q&A session, or the meeting did not go ahead as described.
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Evidence (3)
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E1 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Transcript Finanzapedia · 5 May 2001
“Then we’ll have a break, and then we’ll start again around 12:30, or thereabouts, and go until 3:30.”
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E2 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Transcript Finanzapedia · 5 May 2001
“Well, Charlie answers all the questions about mistakes, so I will turn the second question over to him.”
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E3 Moment of triumph for guru of old economy Australian Financial Review · 30 April 2001
“said during Saturday's five-hour question-and-answer session.”
Reasoning
The meeting transcript records Buffett announcing a noon break, a restart around 12:30 and questions until 3:30 (E1). It also shows Munger answering shareholder questions alongside Buffett (E2). An independent press report describes Saturday's question-and-answer session as lasting five hours (E3), which fits a morning start running to about 3:30 with a lunch break. No source states the actual closing time, so the result is mostly true rather than fully confirmed.
Cite this claim
Warren Buffett, “Buffett and Charlie Munger will answer shareholder questions until 3:30 p.m. at the 2001 meeting, except for a noon break.” (said 28 February 2001). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_f15ecb8cf647, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f15ecb8cf647
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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